Source: Illinois Academy of Science Transactions, Vol. 45, 1952 p. 41
Ralph Emerson
Forest City Furniture Co. – 1889 illustration of exterior
(stacks of lumber in foreground)
Source: 1889-1890 Philippi’s Rockford City Directory, page 14
Forest City Furniture Co., Gilbert Woodruff, president; Ralph Emerson, secretary and treasurer; Wholesale manufacturers of bookcases, office desks, library cases; chamber suites, parlor desks, sideboards, table washstands, table beds, etc. Railroad Ave. between Seventh and Eight sts, Source: 1889-1890 Philippi’s Rockford City Directory
Ebaloy, Inc. foundry – Oct. 1945
Source: Rockford Morning Star October 28, 1945
Burson Knitting Co. – 1892
Source The Morning Star Dec. 15, 1892
Alfred Nelson and patents – 1887
Source: U. S. Patent and Trademark Gazeteer for 1887
Source: Rockford Daily Register Dec. 7, 1887 (above)
Source: Rockford Daily Register January 21, 1887
Ralph Hinchliff house – 1947
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hinchliff, above, from Rockford Morning Star June 8, 1947
*Georganne Hinchliff Eggers asked if she had any photographs of mantel, lintel, etc.
**There was a book published about the house restoration. RPL once owned a copy but does not own one any longer; not available via Interlibrary Loan.
“Rockford’s Ralph Emerson: The Right Man for the Times”
by Gail Ravitts
re” Ralph and Adaline (Talcott) Emerson
pictures: Ralph, home, reaper, Lincoln, Adaline, Adaline’s 5 daughters
pp. 132 – 137
Source: Northwest Quarterly Magazine, SummerFall 2015
Main St., South, 815
J.C. Fitch, S.R., J.E. Gardiner, carpenter, res. S.R.
Source: 1880 City Directory
Emerson, Talcott & Co., Established 1852 Ralph Emerson, Prest. Office S.Main over C.&I. RR
Source: 1888-1889 City Directory
Source: Rockford Register Star 3/28/2011
Main St., North, 505
owners: Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Hinchcliff plans: A. Reyner Eastman altered century old home former factory retread plant on site
fire in the Fall of 1945 scarcity of materials created new possibilities much material from Burlington RR station ten tons of stone from Central High School marble table tops from old Post Office photo of house on Indian Terrace guest house listed as 511 N Main same house listed as 510 Indian Terrace.
Source: Rockfordiana – Historic Houses and Landmarks – 1 & Rockford Register Star 6/17/1947 & Rockford Register Star or Rockford Morning Star 11/9/1951
Source: Rockford Morning Star 4/6/1952
$300,000 cost of remodeling
Source: Rockfordiana – Historic Houses and Landmarks – 1 & Rockford Register Star 11/9/1951
Elevator imported from England in 1900 marble fireplaces imported from Italy 1880 house picked up and moved next door to make room for 300 car parking lot from 436 North Main. House weighed 300 tons.
Source: Rockfordiana – Historic Houses and Landmarks – 1 & Rockford Register Star 3/15/1950
Wrecking permits issued to Parson Wrecking Co. 3rd property at N. Main St. + Mound Ave. Original house built in 1847 by Goodyear Sanford
Source: Rockfordiana – Historic Houses and Landmarks – 1 Rockford Register Star 11/9/1951
interiors featured in “88 historic Illinois Residences” by Drury, pub. Illinois State Historical Society (not owned by RPL)
Rockford Register Star 2/27/1949
Indian Mound on Hinchcliff property excavated representatives of Burpee Museum of Natural History and Beloit College present
nothing found that could prove anything
Source: Rockford Morning Star 4/6/1952
Carriage House once Goodyear Sandford’s property later Ralph Hinchcliff’s pp39/40; to be razed. Highrise for elderly planned
Hinchcliff’s 1st wife: Hortense Hinchcliff’s 2nd wife: Mary Louise Ware. Hinchcliffs now reside in California tunnel once linked main house & carriage house Ralph is the grandson of Ralph Emerson
Source: Rockfordiana – Historic Houses and Landmarks – 2 & Rockford Morning Star 10/8/1967
Source: photo of Sanford-Hinchcliff House in Rockfordiana: Historic Houses 2
Source: http://maps.google.com/streetview printed out in 2011 photo from 2009?
510 Indian Terrace
510 Indian Terrace
1947 article about historic home, 100 years after it was built by Goodyear Asa Sanford in 1847
Owners, Ralph and Mary Louise Hinchcliff have restored it
Has ornamental stonework which fell from Winnebago County Courthouse in 1877 which came from the home of Ralph Emerson, Mr. Hinchcliff’s grandfather
The stained glass windows also came from Mr. Emerson’s home on Church Street
In conservatory, there is a frieze of lobsters and frogs from the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition)
The home has stained glass windows from the Second Congregational Church that burned down, and also ones from the former Christian Union Church at North Main and Mulberry streets
There is a “Sambo” hitching post from the Christian Union Church
Contains photo of Mr. and Mrs. Hinchcliff at the main entrance
Contains photo of Mr. Hinchcliff by ornamental stonework with Indian Mound in foreground
Contains photo of south side of house with restored cupola and ornamental ironwork
Contains photo of college student in conservatory in front of wall of ivy in Hinchcliff home
Contains photo of two college students before fire in home’s country kitchen
(The article was published in 1947; the historic home was demolished in 1951 and an apartment building for the elderly was erected on the site in 1968)
Source: Rockford Morning Star, 06/08/1947